Working with Children to Heal Interpersonal Trauma

The Power of Play
Herausgeber: Gil, Eliana

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Featuring in-depth case presentations from master clinicians, this volume highlights the remarkable capacity of traumatized children to guide their own healing process. The book describes what post-traumatic play looks like and how it can foster resilience and coping.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Guilford Publications
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9781606238929
• ISBN-10: 1606238922
• Artikelnr.: 29841709

Autorenporträt

Eliana Gil, PhD, is founding partner of the Gil Institute for Trauma Recovery and Education, a private group practice in Fairfax, Virginia. She is also Director of Starbright Training Institute for Child and Family Play Therapy. Dr. Gil has worked in the field of child abuse prevention and treatment since 1973. A licensed marriage, family, and child counselor; an approved marriage and family therapy supervisor; a registered art therapist; and a registered play therapy supervisor, she is a former President of the Association for Play Therapy, which honored her with its Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the author of The Healing Power of Play , Helping Abused and Traumatized Children, and Play in Family Therapy, Second Edition, among many other publications. Originally from Guayaquil, Ecuador, Dr. Gil is bilingual and bicultural.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword, Lenore C. TerrI. The Extent of the Problem and Its Impact
1. Introduction, Eliana Gil
2. A Review of Current Research on the Incidence and Prevalence of
Interpersonal Childhood Trauma, Jennifer A. Shaw
3. The Role of Healthy Relational Interactions in Buffering the Impact of
Childhood Trauma, Christine R. Ludy-Dobson and Bruce D. Perry
4. Children's Self-Initiated Gradual Exposure: The Wonders of
Post-Traumatic Play and Behavioral Reenactments, Eliana GilII. Clinical
Responses
5. Silent Grieving in a World without Words: A Child Witnesses His
Brother's Murder, Eliana Gil
6. The Owner of a Broken Heart: The Cumulative Trauma of Surgery and Sexual
Abuse, Nicole Erin Jalazo
7. A Hero's Journey: A Boy Who Lost His Parents and Found Himself, Vincent
L. Pastore
8. A Tornado Disrupts the Wedding, to the Relief of the Unwilling Bride: A
Girl's Quest for Healing after Sexual Abuse, Myriam L. Goldin
9. Finding the Treasure Within: Spontaneous Storytelling and the Sandplay
Journey of an Emotionally Despairing Girl, Rosalind L. Heiko
10. "Stitches Are Stronger Than Glue": A Child Directs the Healing of Her
Shattered Heart, David A. Crenshaw
11. Manny's Story: A Soul Ascending, Eric J. Green
12. "I Am an Artist": A Sexually Traumatized Girl's Self-Portraits in Paint
and Clay, Barbara Sobol
13. The Gift of Time: Helping to Heal through Long-Term Treatment Involving
Complex Trauma and Cultural Issues, Athena A. Drewes
14. "This Mommy Has No Milk!": A Neglected Child's Adaptation to Loss and
Hunger, Eliana Gil
15. Play and the Transformation of Feeling: Niki's Case, Eva-Maria Simms